Movie Monday: Guardians of the Box Office
I don’t think movie studios are even trying anymore. It’s been five weeks since Guardians of the Galaxy was released to the masses, and the thing still is beating down all comers, financially speaking—as if Drax had put his muscle to crunching numbers instead of villainous thugs or Groot was using his excess bark to […]
Taking Comfort (?) in the Emmys
The Emmys were held last night, and most of them went to folks who already had their share. ABC’s Modern Family won for outstanding comedy for the fifth straight year. Breaking Bad was again dubbed the year’s outstanding drama, and the show’s lead character, Bryan Cranston, won his fourth lead actor trophy (tying NYPD Blue’s […]
Movie Monday: Guardians at the Top (Again)
Sometimes, slow and steady wins the race. Every turtle with a meager knowledge of Aesop knows that. Funny that a quartet of speedy turtles got a little refresher course from a sentient tree. After finishing second to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for two straight weeks, Guardians of the Galaxy climbed back into the box office’s […]
Movie Monday: Turtles Power to the Top Again
Fake cops? Not a threat. Oldish action movie stars? Puleeese. A teen with strange and terrifying insights? If you want to topple a quartet of highly trained, mutagen-powered reptiles, you gotta do better than that. Moviegoers shelled out an estimated $28.4 million to see Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, sending the mutants to the top of […]
Love, Sex and The Bachelorette in the 21st Century
As ABC’s The Bachelorette wrapped up its latest season early last week, Andi Dorfman selected her new beau, Josh Murray, and the two are now set to live happily ever after. Or, at least, happily until the cameras stop rolling. But Andi’s final selection proved to be a little anticlimactic when angry runner-up Nick Viall confirmed, […]
A Headline in a Half Shell
My wife likes the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Not me. No siree. If the Turtles hadn’t been kind of a pop culture thing when we were dating, I never would’ve watched the show. Or seen the movie. Or played their video game. Or knew that they had a surreal musical stage show (“Coming Out of […]
Movie Monday: Guardians of the Galaxy
Rocket would be so pleased. Guardians of the Galaxy banked a truly cosmic paycheck this weekend, pocketing an estimated $94 million to easily top the box office. Marvel’s ragamuffin star hoppers crushed all comers as if powered by a fiscal Infinity Stone, and managed to obliterate the box office’s August earnings record en route. The […]
The Devil’s in the Demographics
The entertainment we consume is supposed to, on some level, reflect the real world. Oh, sure, big blockbuster movies aren’t exactly documentaries: There may be gigantic monsters stomping around or sentient apes laying claim on civilization, but the demographics of a given movie try to have at least a passing resemblance to the cities and […]
Guardians of the Galaxy Go to Corinth
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy will officially come out tomorrow (though there are some early showings tonight if you want to stand in a really, really long line). It’s not a particularly religious movie (you can check out my review tonight and read all about it), but it did remind me—odd, I admit—of 1 Corinthians 12:12-31. […]
Movie Monday: Lucy
I typically use just 10% of my brain to write Movie Monday blogs. What is the other 90% of my brain up to? Who knows? Maybe it has a second job or something, or it just likes to hum ’80s pop tunes to itself while the rest of my brain is hard at work. But […]
